513 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
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Protester at public hearing for Weed and Seed proposal, December 3, 1992
Weed and Seed was a 1992 Bush administration initiative to provide federal grants to city governments to help “weed” drug-dealing and crime from troubled neighborhoods, and “seed” those areas with social programs. Mayor Norm Rice procured a $1.1 million grant for a Weed and Seed program for Seattle’s Central Area, but approval was delayed for several months over widespread opposition…
ID Number:2000.107.19921203.11.33
Date:1992
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Protesters at public hearing on proposed Weed and Seed prgram, Seattle, December 12, 1992
Weed and Seed was a 1992 Bush administration initiative to provide federal grants to city governments to help “weed” drug-dealing and crime from troubled neighborhoods, and “seed” those areas with social programs. Mayor Norm Rice procured a $1.1 million grant for a Weed and Seed program for Seattle’s Central Area, but approval was delayed for several months over widespread opposition…
ID Number:2000.107.19921203.11.41
Date:1992
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Weed and Seed protester at City Council meeting, Seattle, December 14, 1992
Weed and Seed was a 1992 Bush administration initiative to provide federal grants to city governments to help “weed” drug-dealing and crime from troubled neighborhoods, and “seed” those areas with social programs. Mayor Norm Rice procured a $1.1 million grant for a Weed and Seed program for Seattle’s Central Area, but approval was delayed for several months over widespread opposition…
ID Number:2000.107.19921214.5.04
Date:1992
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Weed and Seed protester at City Council meeting, Seattle, December 14, 1992
Weed and Seed was a 1992 Bush administration initiative to provide federal grants to city governments to help “weed” drug-dealing and crime from troubled neighborhoods, and “seed” those areas with social programs. Mayor Norm Rice procured a $1.1 million grant for a Weed and Seed program for Seattle’s Central Area, but approval was delayed for several months over widespread opposition…
ID Number:2000.107.19921214.5.22
Date:1992
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Center Park housing residents protesting proposed Metro bus changes, Seattle, May 18, 1993
Center Park is a subsidized public housing complex in the north Rainier Valley, designed to provide accommodations for people with disabilities. From the early 1970s, people living at Center Park had access to a customized Metro bus, nicknamed “the love bus” by residents, designed to handle 16 wheelchairs. In May 1993, Metro announced it would be eliminating the Center Park…
ID Number:2000.107.19930518.4.02
Date:1993
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Hands Off Washington demonstration, July 15, 1993
In 1993, the conservative activist organization Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) attempted to influence Washington state politics by gathering signatures for ballot initiatives that would have restricted the civil rights of LGLBTQ citizens in Washington. The Washington Citizens for Fairness/Hands Off Washington (HOW) campaign was a grassroots gay rights effort organized in 1993 to defeat this attempt, casting the OCA as…
ID Number:2000.107.19930715.1.25
Date:1993
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Protesters sitting on sidewalk in defiance of new law, Seattle, November 8, 1993
On November 8, 1994, about 100 unhoused people and their advocates sat on the sidewalks in Pioneer Square in protest of a new Seattle city ordinance banning sitting or lying on sidewalks. Advocates claimed the law violated the civil rights of unhoused people. Although the law was challenged in court, both state and federal appeals courts ruled it did not…
ID Number:2000.107.19931108.1.32
Date:1993
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Demonstrators with signs outside Westin Hotel prior to APEC conference, Seattle, November 19, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.19931119.1.09
Date:1993
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Demonstrators protesting China's human rights record prior to APEC conference, Seattle, November 19, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.19931119.4.14
Date:1993
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Mayor Norm Rice marching in Pride parade, June 26, 1994
The first Pride Week was celebrated by Seattle's gay and lesbian community in June 1974. Now called Seattle Pride, this series of events is held annually in late June to celebrate LGBTQ pride in Seattle. The slogan of the 1994 pride march was "No Discrimination," in reference to Initiatives 608 and 610, which would deny minority status or civil-rights protection…
ID Number:2000.107.19940624.1.18
Date:1994